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Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC

Friday, March 20, 2009
Come hear about the key concepts and features behind the two primary user interface technologies available for ASP.NET: MVC and Web Forms. Learn the pros and cons of both MVC and Web Forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific project, various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications vs. Web Forms applications, and the implications for using each approach.
  • Rachel Appel
    Rachel has been working as a mentor, instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for nearly 20 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences. Rachel’s expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server. She is also an ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications. She is also a member of the INETA speakers bureau.

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  • someDude (gravatar)

    someDude said
    March 21, 2009

    I would recommend to leave out the history part (asp classic, ..) - does not really interest me if i want to see decide between webforms and mvc (10 debatable minutes). You are repeating several times that the web form example is simple nothing special (why repeat that statement).

    Talking about interactivity i may suggest to ask the audience about their previous knowledge to decide how long you stay on the basic topics (for example i would assume that over 90% knew what a querystring is and know how to get a value from it). You could even poll the audience if you can rush through the basic explanation of WebForms (another 5 to 10 minutes saved).

    On around 39 minutes in the video you say that you can controll more with mvc. But i did no see you gave an example or an explanation about that.
    On minute 43 you start to talk about the controller and repeat again a lot of statements.

    On minute 53 up to minute 59 you name some considerations which can help to decide between WebForms and MVC.

    So basically it leaves me with 6 minutes that might help.

    Kudos how you handled the guy who wanted to talk about css-styles versus themes.

    Greetings

  • Joe (gravatar)

    Joe said
    March 21, 2009

    Excellent presentation. You've done a great job of delivering the point and injecting humor into the talk. Very nice speaking style and very informative.

    thanks

  • Magnus Sälgö (gravatar)

    Magnus Sälgö said
    March 28, 2009

    I agree with someDude not worth listening to. I am glad that I didn't do a trip from Stockholm to listening to something like this ....

  • Good presentation, but not good enought to convert you from WebForms to MVC!
    (Google WebForms Vs MVC) ;)

  • So much off topic filler, also repeating sentences more than once gets annoying. Presentation needs to be more focused/meaty to continue to engage interest. I think I could have consumed the worthwhile content in less than 20 minutes.

    "I also wasn't expecting a first look at MVC for Webforms developers" and would have loved to hear about performance considerations like the value of not have post back / page life cycle / control tree on CPU, page weight etc....

  • Thank you,it is really pretty ,i like it

  • You've done a great job of delivering the point and injecting humor into the talk.

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  • You've done a great job of delivering the point and injecting humor into the talk.

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